Lecture—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s).The role gender plays in film history/culture in various geographical contexts and in aspects of contemporary globalization. Films from nations such as China, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Korea, New Zealand, and the U.S.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Critical introduction to major traditions of social thinking in the West from a feminist perspective. (Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

WMS070—Theory and History of Sexualities(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Key issues in the social construction, organization, and reproduction of sexualities such as the intersection of sexual identity with gender, race, ethnicity, and class, and the relation between movements for sexual liberation and the regulation of the body.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Limited enrollment.In-depth examination of a women's studies topic related to the research interest of the instructor. May be repeated for credit when topic differs.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).In-depth examination of a women and gender studies topic related to the research interest of the instructor. May be repeated up to 1 Time(s) when topic differs.(Letter.)GE credit: SS, WE.Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.

WMS090X—Lower Division Seminar(2)Active

Seminar—2 hour(s).Examination of a special topic in Womens Studies through shared readings, discussions, and written assignments.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS091—Research Seminar in the Transnational Production and Consumption of Fashion(1-2)Active

Seminar—1-2 hour(s).Preparation for a research conference.May be repeated for credit when topic differs.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s); Term Paper.Explores changing configurations of race, gender, sexuality, class and implications for governmentality in one or more colonial or postcolonial regimes in one or more societies.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, DD, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

WMS103—Introduction to Feminist Theory(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):WMS 050 recommended or consent of instructor.Introduction to the emergence of feminist theory and to key concepts in feminist theorizing. Examination of past and current debates over sexuality, race, identity politics, and the social construction of womens experience.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Political/cultural changes, conflicts, and economic disparities that have led to greater mobility and dispersal of families. Transnationalism on gender relations, sexualities, and the meaning of family.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, OL, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Spring Quarter.

WMS136—Critical Food Studies(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Production and consumption of food at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nation, and body. Individual and familial experiences as part of larger economic and political structures in the U.S. and globally.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, OL, SS, WE.Effective: 2018 Spring Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Applies a critical gender perspective to militarism as manifest in contexts of military rule, war, conflict, peacebuilding and security post-conflict. Addresses the changing configurations of gender and sexuality in military institutions and militarized economies and cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

WMS148—Science, Gender, and Social Justice(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s); Term Paper.Class size limited to 60 students.Critical reading and reflection on the history of Western science, scientific institutions and the changing role of science in relation to inequalities of class, race, gender and sexuality, and global struggles for equality and justice. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, DD, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s).Historical overview of and contemporary issues in feminist film theory, including representation, spectatorship, and cultural production. Film stars, women filmmakers, and the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class in films and their audiences.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

WMS164—Topics in Gender and Cinematic Representation(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s).Examination of a specific topic within the broad rubric of gender and cinema. Possible topics include Latinas in Hollywood; gender, nation, cinema; and gender and film genre. Topics vary.May be repeated up to 2 Time(s) when topic differs.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).The body as a site where status inequalities are formed and resisted. Self-making through bodywork, history of gendered and racial meanings of the body, and analysis of normalizing discourses and practices.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, DD, SS, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

WMS175—Gender and Experience of Race(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Exploration of the co-construction of “race” and gender in comparative national historical contexts and contemporary lived experience. Study of intersections of race and gender in identities and how institutions, labor migration, social movements and consumption shape racialized gendered identities. (Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS178A—Women Writers and the Transnational Imaginary; The Arab World(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Writings by women from diverse regions and cultures, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, with each course offering a focus on women’s writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: The Arab World.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS178B—Women Writers and the Transnational Imaginary; Asia(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Writings by women from diverse regions and cultures, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, with each course offering a focus on women’s writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: Asia. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS178C—Women Writers and the Transnational Imaginary; The Caribbean(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Writings by women from diverse regions and cultures, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, with each course offering a focus on women’s writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: The Caribbean. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Writings by women from diverse regions and cultures, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts, with each course offering a focus on women’s writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: Diasporic Women Writers in Europe. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS178F—Transnationalism and Writing by Women of Color (4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Writings by women of color in a transnational framework, understood in their cultural, socio-economic, and historical contexts. The interrelation among gender, writing, nationalism, and transnationalism with focus on women's writing in specific geographic/national locations and their diasporas: Topics on Women Writers of Color.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS179—Literature as Aesthetics of Resistance (4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Literature by women and other marginal groups which embody dissent and subversion as a means of challenging the status quo and to affect social transformation. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Role of gender in the creation of social policies, especially with respect to issues brought into the policy arena by contemporary feminism.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

WMS189—Special Topics in Critical Gender Studies(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).In-depth examination of a women's studies topic related to the research interests of the instructor.May be repeated up to 1 Time(s) when topic differs.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Internship—3-36 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of a minimum of 84 units and consent of instructor; enrollment dependent on availability of intern positions with priority to Women's Studies majors.Supervised internship and study in positions/institutional settings dealing with gender-related problems or issues, as for example, a women's center, affirmative action office, advertising agency, or social welfare agency. Final written report on internship experience.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Seminar—4 hour(s).Group study of a topic, issue or area in feminist theory and research involving intensive reading and writing.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, SS, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

WMS197T—Tutoring in Women's Studies(1-4)Active

Tutorial—3-12 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Upper division standing and consent of director.Leading small, voluntary discussion groups affiliated with a Womens
Studies course. May be repeated for credit for a total of 8 units.May be repeated up to 8 Unit(s).(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Seminar—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):WMS 200A B+ or better.Application of feminist theoretical perspectives to the interdisciplinary investigation of a problem or question chosen by the instructor(s). May be repeated for credit when subject area differs.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS201—Special Topics in Feminist Theory and Research(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Explores in depth a topic in feminist theory and research related to the research interests of the instructor. May be repeated for credit when topic differs. Limited enrollment.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

WMS250—Cultural Study of Masculinities(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the social and cultural
construction of masculinities; attention to the effects of biology, gender, race, class, sexual and national identities; criticism of oral, printed, visual, and mass mediated texts, and of social relations and structures.(Same course as AMS 250.)(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.